University Libraries

Evolution, Ecology and Population Biology

Alwyn H. Gentry Forest Transect Data Set

Missouri Botanic Garden makes available forest transect data collected from sites around the world by the late Alwyn H. Gentry. As part of a project developed to "ensure that Gentry's ecological data receive maximum use and are readily available to the biological research community," an electronic version of the entire data set (226 transects total) is accessible through this Web site, free of charge. Users must submit an access request Web form each time they retrieve data files.

Biodiversity and Conservation

Hypertext book by Peter J. Bryan, Univ. of Calif., Irvine, for his Biological Conservation class.

Biodiversity Informatics Facility, American Museum of Natural History - Open Source Resources, Remote Sensing Resources, Geospatial Resources for Freshwater Conservation, Interative Tools

Center for North American Herpetology

Charles Darwin Research Station, Galapagos

Conservation Ecology: Special Feature on Insect Pollinator Declines

Full text, v.5, no. 1, 2001.

Darwin Correspondence Project

Web site for the multivolume book Correspondence of Charles Darwin; includes an online calendar of correspondence.

Early Classics in Biogeography, Distribution, and Diversity Studies: To 1950

Bibliography with some fulltext links, produced and maintained by Charles Smith, science librarian at the University of Western Kentucky.

Ecological Society of America Education Program

Frogweb: Amphibian Declines and Deformities

Insignificance of Statistical Significance Testing

Electronic version of article by Douglas H. Johnson, originally published in the Journal of Wildlife Management, 63(3):763-772, 1999.

Electronic Statistics Handbook

StatSoft Inc. provides this electronic textbook on the use of statistics in laboratory research, business, social sciences, datamining, and engineering, among other fields.

Reptile Database

An Online Information Resource on Reptile Taxonomy with a Focus on the Species Level; formerly EMBL Reptile Database.

HyperStat Online

An introductory level statistics text online, by David M. Lane, includes links to other statistics sites, a Glossary and Search Function.

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

from International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, Species Survival Commission.

Index To Organism Names

Searchable database of animals, fungi & mosses, bacteria, and algae.

Phylogenetic Systematics

from Univ. of California Museum of Paleontology

Molecular Systematics and Evolution Course

From Natural History Museum, London; includes lectures, tutorials, glossary, etc.; freely available to educational institutions.

National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis

NCBI Taxonomy Homepage

Easy way to get a listing of the full lineage of a particular species.

Ordination Methods for Ecologists

Quantitative Population Ecology

Teaching resource written and compiled by Dr. Alexei Sharov of the Department of Entomology at Virginia Tech.

Register of Ecological Models (REM)

Contains more than 450 ecological models, searchable by model name or subject.

Status and Trends of the Nation's Biological Resources

Full text of a recent book from the US Geological Survey. A "large-scale assessment of the health of the nation's plants, animals, and ecosystems and is intended for use by managers, scientists, policy makers, and the general public."

Taxonomy on the Web

Many useful links and summaries from Montgomery College Learning Resource Center.

Teaching About Evolution and the Nature of Science, from National Academy of Sciences

Resources for teachers and administrators regarding "evolution and the role of science in human affairs."

VassarStats Statistical Computation Website

How to choose a statistical test, ch.37 of Intutitive Biostatistics (1995, Oxford Univ. Press)